DNF Duel

Look I've played alot of DNF Duel and there were a lot of mistakes along the way to cause the game where it is now. However, you have developers trying hard to rejuvenate the game (via updates, season pass and upfront communication) and you have people and players being pragmatic and massive down voting the game. The core Gameplay of the game always been great, and each updates makes the game even more bonkers. If games like SFV and No Man Sky were given second chance why not DNF Duel. The game is really fun, and playing with your friends is even more fun. The game is 20 bucks right now. Jump in and hopefully I see you online. The DNF duel community always been great and we help new players. Long Live DNF Duel

Its hard to write a negative review for DNF Duel because I thoroughly enjoyed the base gameplay. If you ignore everything outside of the matches you play(and have a good connection to your opponent), there is a quick to pickup fighting game here. But its also hard to write a positive review, because every aspect of this game feels like a budget title that skimps out on the extra fluff of fighting games while charging $60+. TL_DR: Get on sale, in a bundle, or during an Epic give away. Recommend playing with friends/joining LFG groups. Its ok as a side game but is missing a lot of polish that you would expect from other ArcSys fighters. Positives: -A well fleshed out tutorial for every character. -Motion inputs are optional, making the game easier to play. Doing motion inputs only makes your special meter regen faster. Meter regen is already fast, so new players shouldn’t feel pressured to learn the motion inputs.(Negative: The character specific tutorials never teach motion inputs for specific characters. They have to be looked up in the command list.) -Characters feel unique with their archetypes/gimmicks. -Fast gameplay, big normals, easy to pick up and learn. -Low system requirements -Enjoyed the art style that is reminiscent of Guilty Gear Xrd; however, the music was just “ok”. -Training mode is “acceptable”; has simplified frame data on block/hit and has usable record/replay settings. Everything else: Ranked online has the ability to use training mode or play the single player modes while waiting in a queue. But these features are poorly optimized, drastically increasing load times in between matches. Load times are abnormally long as it is. Guilty Gear Strive, a game with more assets and graphical detail per match, made by the same developer, and releasing a year before DNF, has shorter load times than this game. At the very least, quick rematch is available in online matches and does not incur the long loading times. Its notable that survival mode does not use the typical loading screen and loads faster. It feels that the mandatory loading screen is just for aesthetics. The match ready notification for ranked has no audio cue. There is also nothing preventing people from going afk and clogging up ranked matches by never readying up. Online rank information is saved locally, so it is trivial to smurf in rank if anyone cared to. Player lobbies do not have a message/option to alert players when the host is about to close the lobby. Text chat is heavily limited in characters, making it difficult to socialize in player lobbies. Discovered this trying to ask for matchup advice in game. I bought the game during a sale/giveaway, so the player population is probably going to shrink back to Discord status again in a couple weeks. The single player gamemodes are bare bones and repetitive. You have the usual slop of arcade mode and a survival mode with generic stat buffs. I wouldn’t comment on this normally, as single player content is never the focus of traditional 2D fighters. But I found DNF Duels story mode to be offensively lazy. Every characters “story” is them following the same path and locations, with a generic tournament arc style scenario. Everyone has to fight everyone else as strangers, they are eliminated after they lose, etc. Character motivations don’t matter and there is no meaningful plot to speak of. The setting is written as if you are already familiar with it. Dialogue and locations are reused to an excessive degree. NPC’s are represented with portraits instead of 3D models, despite these characters existing with 3D assets in the backgrounds of stages. Presumably they were not rigged for mouth flapping animations, so they went with these jpegs instead. I cant tell if this game has bad netcode or not. Over 90% of the matches I have played have been against people outside my region and kids who clearly got the game for free on Epic/are playing on their parents PC. There is no cross play with console, only epic. So your stuck with the people trying to play this on computers that are far below system requirements. I have had some quality connections with people with some obvious time on the game, so I assume that this game runs well online under normal circumstances. I have no comment on game balance. I would question any review with under 20 hours discussing balance.

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This game was good but the moment you get online you will die to every player to one big combo that you can't get out of.

One of the best fighting games to come out in the past 15 years. Graphics are amazing, has one of the best netcodes ever implemented in a fighting game. Combos are fun, accessible, and characters all feel distinct to each other. It's great, so what happened? The new FGC community made sure this game would die followed by radio silence from the developers for MONTHS. This is one the highest grossing franchises on the planet and the production quality of this game shows this, but it didn't get the love it needed. Keep this game in your mind when new fighting games release in the future, what a tragedy.

Disgusting game where you will not get your turn. Combos seems very repetitive, no need precise input. A good game if you just want to have fun. Competitive, meeehhhh don't bother with this game. Very disgusting

DNF Duel is some of the most fun I've ever had with fighting games.....it's also the most forgotten fighting game I've ever played. The devs/owners put out a unbalanced yet immensely fun game and then forgot about it. Can't truly recommend because it's mostly dead by now. Maybe catch it on a sale or when a new character comes out, otherwise just play GG Strive or wait for SF6